Category: Computers / Internet

“Some of our biggest companies have spent almost half their earnings to buy back their own stock, and another third or more to pay dividends. That doesn’t leave a lot left to raise pay or invest in the workers or make new investments to ensure a company’s future success” Clinton said. “These trends need to change.”

Using USB-C to connect your phone to a screen (which can charge your phone as your phone drives the display)

Responsive Design going beyond websites into apps so that now one app can run anywhere

There is also a third thing which hasn’t been explored much and that is “dual screen” which means your phone screen can be doing something different from the big screen it’s attached to. This whole idea is certainly not new, but all the previous attempts have failed. If this works (requires new hardware that has not been announced yet) Microsoft will have pulled off something truly great – a bunch of dumb screens driven by one smart device.

Morake says he doesn’t usually accept requests more than 10 minutes away, because customers tend to get impatient and cancel when he’s halfway there. He finally accepted mine because it was coming from a hospital and seemed desperate. “So it called one time, two times, three times — I said, ‘Maybe this person don’t have nobody else.'”

The contrast is so striking — Morake, who accepted a ride against his own best interests out of human kindness, and Uber, which treats him and so many other drivers as utterly disposable numbers in an equation.